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Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta

10-15-2008, 10:20 AM

Phoronix: Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.11 Beta

X Server 1.5 was officially released last month with X.Org 7.4, but there had been server pre-releases going back to earlier this year. Fedora 9 had even shipped with an early version version of X Server 1.5. For those using the open-source X.Org drivers, running the latest server is not a big deal, but those with ATI or NVIDIA binary drivers they sometimes can be slow in supporting the latest version. NVIDIA has supported X Server 1.5 for a number of weeks now, but ATI has yet to update their Catalyst Linux driver with such support. With Ubuntu 8.10 being released in two weeks and it's using this newest X Server, how will ATI graphics cards be supported? Well, an interesting event has occurred and we will tell you what has happened in this article.

I was expecting to have to switch to xorg-driver-ati when I upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. That may not have bothered me so much, because the latest version reportedly supports compositing on the Radeon Xpress 1100.

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But Michael, are you sure that you got the release streams right? Catalyst 8.8 was 8.52, 8.9 is 8.53 and so this driver is probably the Catalyst 8.10 driver (final driver I guess, or a Catalyst 8.10 hotfix). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am... quite sure.

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But Michael, are you sure that you got the release streams right? Catalyst 8.8 was 8.52, 8.9 is 8.53 and so this driver is probably the Catalyst 8.10 driver (final driver I guess, or a Catalyst 8.10 hotfix). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am... quite sure.

Yes, you are correct. There was a miscommunication. It should be fixed now.

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Shuttleworth is presenting Ubuntu + AMD as the killer alternative to the Wintel platform. I believe he thinks he can sell to the HPs and the Dells of this world as a lower cost, higher margin alternative. This is why he gets more preferential treatment than Phoronix, OpenSUSE or RedHat.